Complete Jewish Bible-OE

by David H. Stern

Book Overview

Now, the most widely used Messianic Jewish Bible around the world, has updated text with introductions added to each book, written from a biblically Jewish perspective. The CJB is a unified Jewish... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9653590154
• ISBN13: 9789653590151
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Messianic Jewish Publisher
• Length: 1631 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.7" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Love it. I am so happy with this purchase and again I will say, I Love it. Learning words in Hebrew

Wow, absolutely recommend it.

Excellent Bible

It is easy to read and I enjoyed reading from KJV and CJB and I get better understanding of God's word in the Name of Adonai.

Best book purchase I ever made--hands down.

Can I say enough? Probably not. Can I say enough to persuade you to buy this book? Perhaps. This is such a great Bible translation. This Bible offers much that other English translations have been lacking in for years. First, people interested in this Bible will want to know what's different about this Bible from other Bibles. There are several things different about this Bible from the versions you may be used to. I'll try to be short. 1. The Old Testament (Tanakh) is translated from the Masoretic Hebrew text, not from the Septuagint. Many of you may be shocked to realize, but virtually all of the English versions available (yes, including the King James Version) are not translated from the Hebrew, but from the Greek Septuagint, which was translated in roughly 247-221 B.C. While generally this does not create problems, it is quite obvious that translating once is much more accurate than translating twice. 2. Stern retains the transliterated (or, written in English, instead of Hebrew) names for people, places, and some important Jewish key words. For some, this may seem tedious at first, but I assure you that it is not particularly troublesome. It is very easy from context to know of what person you are reading, and often the transliterated names are actually spelled very similar or identical to what you are used to in other Bibles. Furthermore, Stern includes a very useful glossary in the back of the Bible for you to look up any of the transliterated Hebrew names and terms. 3. The books of the Old Testament in this Bible are not in the same order as in other English versions. This results from the translation from the Septuagint, referred to earlier. The order of the books in other English Bibles was derived from the Greek Septuagint (if you want to know more about that topic, you might want to check out The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah). This follows the Hebrew canonical order, separating the scriptures into the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings. Since there is no Hebrew canonical order for the New Testament (since it is not considered scripture by Judaism), the New Testament, or B'rit Hadashah, is in the same order as you are used to. 4. Despite the transliterated Hebrew words, this Bible is surprisingly easy to read. The format is very simple, even informal at times, and results in a very comfortable read. However, it does not over-simplify the text, as other English versions are sometimes guilty of doing. Finally, a personal note. Before obtaining this Bible, I still almost exclusively used the KJV for my personal Bible study, though I often used other versions in teaching (I teach an adult Bible Study class at my church). The reason for favoring the KJV was simply that other, newer versions are often guilty of simplifying the text, and NOT just the grammar. Many parts of Biblical text are NOT simple, and should not be treated as such. However, the GRAMMAR may be simplifie